[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] commit of r41586 - in python/trunk: Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py Misc/NEWS

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:47:06AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Happened to see this commit. What's the magic about 10MB? Is there any
> understanding of what causes it to fail? What is the failure mode?
> Could it just be fragmentation causing the malloc or realloc to fail?
> Should we perhaps use a more conservative buffer size, e.g. 1MB or
> even 8K (the international standard for I/O buffering :-)?

At least on my Mac, it was a malloc error (a message is printed to
stderr by the malloc implementation).  SimpleXMLRPCServer ends up
catching the MemoryError and keeps running.  I don't know why the
malloc fails.

--amk